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Statement by President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday's election results:

The broadening of personal freedoms reflects the changing profile of a country that has sought to bill itself as a skyscraper-studded destination for Western tourists, fortune-seekers and businesses despite its legal system based on a hard-line interpreta...

New cases of COVID19 have plateaued in the hardhit Czech Republic, but hospitals are under strain and infections among vulnerable senior citizens are on the rise, authorities said on Friday.

Scientists in northern Russia have discovered a huge walrus haulout on the shores of the Kara Sea where their habitat is under threat from shrinking ice and human activity.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Friday she had discussed coronavirus controls and economic relief measures with mainland Chinese officials during her threeday trip to Beijing and that the central government has welcomed her proposals.

There is a "50/50" chance that Britain and the European Union will be able to reach a deal over the terms of Britain's exit from the bloc, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Friday.

Poll officials in key battleground states pushed back on claims by Trump that Republican poll watchers were being denied access to observe counting of ballots

In the Georgia case, the campaign alleged that 53 late-arriving ballots were mixed with on-time ballots. In Michigan, it had sought to stop votes from being counted and obtain greater access to the tabulation process.

At times, the lawsuits have contested ballots that number in the double digits, which would be hundreds, if not thousands, of votes shy of potentially swinging any state's result.

The U.S. Justice Department and federal prosecutors said Thursday that they have reached an agreement with Meriden, Connecticut, to resolve allegations the city illegally rejected an application for a proposed mosque.

A Toronto police officer was sentenced Thursday to nine months in jail for his assault conviction in the beating of a young Black man who lost an eye when he was arrested in 2016.

A parttime north Louisiana police officer who was shot last month during a traffic stop died Thursday, authorities said.

Daily antigovernment protests in Poland entered a third week Thursday with grandmothers rallying in Warsaw and smaller demonstrations held in other cities and towns.

Europe must rethink its openborder Schengen area, including a more robust protection of the zone's external frontiers, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, after a spate of Islamist attacks in France and Austria.

Italy has registered 34,505 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday, its highest ever daily tally and up from 30,550 on Wednesday.

The campaign scheduled a news conference as ballot counting in the U.S. presidential election continued in the state.